It had been a couple of days since the Winchester brothers and Lia were investigating a strange hunt that consisted of an invisible pervert, a super-strong child, a lottery ticket winner, a couple that were going to get married, and a 7-foot tall teddy bear.
A man called Wesley had a grand-father that collected coins. One of the coins happened to be a wish-making coin, but no one should ever use this coin for obvious reasons. However, Wes decided to go against his grand-father's advice once he passed away, so Wes dropped the coin into a wishing-well at a Chinese restaurant. Wes wished for the girl who he had a crush on, to love him more than anything.
What Wesley didn't plan out was the fact that Hope loved him more than everything, and she grew obsessed with him to the point that she wasn't acting like the woman Wesley fell for in the first place.
The magic coin that Wesley dropped into the well happened to not only grant his wish, but also grant the wish of anyone else who wished upon the well. So meanwhile, others started to wish upon the well, like a teenager who wished to be invisible so he could spy on the women in the showers or the little girl who wished her teddy bear to be alive.
However, all wishes turn sour. Dean wished for a foot long Italian sandwich with jalapeno and eventually he ended up having stomach problems. Little Audrey wished for her teddy to be alive and it turns out to be suicidal, not to mention the drinking and the porn.
They soon found out that only the person who dropped the coin into the well, could take it out again and get rid of ALL the wishes placed on the well. It took some time, but the brothers and Lia figured out that it was Wesley who dropped the coin into the well in the first place.
It took some time, but they eventually convinced Wesley to take out the coin. Of course, Lia felt a bit bad about it afterwards because once he pulled the coin out, Hope completely ignored him once again. But that was how life was supposed to be, no one is supposed to get what they want all the time. Plus, if Wesley hadn't pulled the coin out then the town would have gone into complete chaos.
However, that case was closed, and at the moment the brother's and Lia were in a bar, trying to score more money. Dean and Lia (being the ones who practically shared a mind) came up with a plan.
It was fairly simple, Sam would hustle pool and pretend he was drunk. He would lose the first round of the game, making the opponent feel he couldn't lose against Sam. Then Dean and Lia would tell the opponent to stop playing against Sam, since he was drunk. The opponent would feel superior and go against this. He and Sam would play another game for more money and Sam would beat him.
The plan was soon set into motion. Lia stood beside Dean, taking a sip of her beer. Watching as Sam lost the first game purposely. Soon they would try to 'stop' the game.
"Alright come on man, just one more. Give me a chance to win it back," Sam begged the man.
"It's your cash," The man replied.
Lia smirked a bit to herself, the plan was already working out perfectly. The beefy man who Sam was playing against was bald and had a mustache, he looked tough on the outside, mostly because he had a skull on his black t-shirt. However, he was no match for Sam Winchester.
Then Dean walked up to the two, Lia followed closely behind and took a sip of her beer. This was somewhat entertaining to her of course since Mr. Mustache was a bit thick-headed.
"Excuse me, my brother's a little sauced to be making bets," Dean informed Mr. Mustache.
Mr. Mustache glanced over at Sam, "Hey, he insisted."
Lia tried not to smirk, the plan was going so perfectly. Although since Mr. Mustache wasn't looking at her she winked at Sam. She noticed that Sam tried not to smile as he watched Dean and Mr. Mustache talk. But this time it was for Lia to say her well-rehearsed line.
"What my friend means to say is that you've taken quite a bit of dough off of him," Lia pointed out.
Mr. Mustache looked at Lia, she of course knew the look he was giving her, and she had seen it so many times. The trying-not-to-check-her-out look, but of course other guys in the bar were checking her out at that very moment. It didn't matter to her, she didn't want a relationship or a one-night stand. She didn't need one, she had two great friends by her side.
"Shut up you two, I'm fine," Sam spoke out.
Dean looked at his brother, "No, you're not fine, you're drunk."
Mr. Mustache wasn't listening to the two brother's anymore, all he was doing was putting the pool balls into the triangle, along with occasionally glancing at Lia.
Sam ignored his brother, "Let's make it five hundred."
"Five hundred?" Dean asked rhetorically in disbelief.
This was still quite amusing for Lia, she took another swig of her beer and smirked slightly. Fortunately, Mr. Mustache wasn't looking at her at the moment, so he wouldn't suspect the three of trying to trick him into taking his money. As for the acting, Sam was playing a very good drunk man and Dean was very good at trying to stop him. Of course it would almost seem switched around, with Sam trying to stop a drunk Dean. But then again, Dean didn't exactly get drunk anymore, he just drank a lot of alcohol.
"Five hundred..." Dean said once again, looking at his brother this time.
Mr. Mustache took off the triangle, "You're break."
Sam took a rather large wad of bills from his pocket and he set them down beside his drink on the table. Dean was acting as though his brother was being completely ridiculous and Lia was just enjoying the show. When Mr. Mustache crouched down to put the triangle back Dean smirked at Sam and raised his eyebrow slightly.
Lia knew this look of course, it was the: I-can't-believe-this-guy-is-buying-it look. Then Mr. Mustache popped up again, holding his pool stick and Dean and Sam went right back into the act. Then Sam hit the cue ball with his pool stick, breaking the cluster of pool balls. A whole bunch of ball's went into the pouches but Lia didn't count how many. It did sound like a lot of course.
The reason Lia wasn't looking at the table was because she wanted to see Mr. Mustache's face. Of course, it was priceless. It went from smug to disbelief. She looked at Dean and smirked, trying to hold in her laughter. Then she glanced back at Sam and saw his face changed as well.
Sam was looking over her shoulder, but of course Lia didn't know what exactly. It was strange to see his face go from serious to almost shock. What was even more surprising was when he said: "Keep the money."
Dean did a double-take, "Keep the money?"
Sam put his pool stick onto the pool roughly and he walked away. Lia gave Dean a confused look. What happened to the plan? Why did Sam suddenly stop everything? Her gaze followed where Sam was walking and her confused face went to anger. Ruby.
Lia remembered the day she first met Ruby, it was right after Castiel zapped Dean and Lia into the past to when Mary and John were dating. It ended terribly, Azazel came and killed Samuel and Deanna Campbell, and he wanted to make a deal with Mary. It was only until Azazel killed John Winchester that Mary agreed to let Azazel bring John back if she let him come back in ten years for something.
Of course, that something was the fact that Azazel would do something to Sam and give him certain kind of powers, however Mary didn't know this at the time. But in ten years when Azazel was in Sam's nursery, Mary came in. It ended with Mary burning on the ceiling and John wanting to get revenge on the yellow-eyed bastard.
However, when Castiel brought Dean and Lia back he gave them a warning. Saying that Sam was heading down a dangerous road and if they didn't stop him then the angels would. Of course Sam had sneaked out in the night, Castiel gave the two the location of the younger brother.
When Dean and Lia arrived they saw Sam expelling a demon from some guy's body with his mind. However there was a woman with Sam, a woman who Lia and Dean didn't recognize. When they confronted Sam they found out that the woman was Ruby.
Now of course, Lia had no idea who Ruby was, but Dean sure did. Later on Sam and Dean filled Lia in on who Ruby was. Apparently before Dean went to hell Ruby was 'trying' to save Dean from going to hell, of course she never actually saved Dean in the end and Dean went straight to hell.
Although, Lia and Dean don't trust her at all anymore, but for some strange reason Sam does. Lia suspects something happened while Dean was in the pit for four months, but of course Lia wasn't with the brothers at the time so neither of them know what could have happened.
All they know is, they hate Ruby and really want her dead. Lia hates her because of what she is doing to Sam. She was the one who must have taught Sam how to use his mind powers to expel demons from bodies. She was the one who got them all into this mess basically.
There's one thing that Ruby has against Lia though. Something that Ruby and every other demon know (Possibly the angels as well). However, no one else knows Lia's secret, not even the brothers. She hopes to God she will never have to tell anyone and she will kill Ruby if she even lets it out.
At the moment, Dean and Lia were following Sam towards Ruby. If Lia weren't so pissed off she'd be scared of the look Dean was giving. It wasn't anger that shone on Dean's face, it was loathing.
"Well you got a lot of nerve showing up anywhere near us," Dean told her.
"I just have some info and then I'm gone," Ruby replied.
Lia couldn't help but feel slightly curious about what Ruby wanted to tell them. She had a feeling it must have been important because the last time they met (and also the first time they met) Dean was actually going to kill her.
"Fine, what is it?" Lia asked menacingly, crossing her arms.
Ruby looked over at Lia, "I'm hearing a few whispers."
One thing Lia didn't like about demons was the fact that they were so cryptic. Of course, angels took being cryptic to a whole bigger level. Then again, Lia didn't like one single thing about demons. Perhaps she even hated demons more than Sam and Dean did.
"Ooh great, demon whispers! That's reliable," Dean replied sarcastically.
Ruby chose to ignore Dean's comment, "A girl named Anna Milton escaped from a locked ward yesterday. The demons seem pretty keen on finding her. Apparently some really heavy hitters turned out for the Easter egg hunt."
A few things that Lia started to wonder about at once was: Why did Anna Milton want to escape and why would the demons want her? She let out a sigh and looked over at Dean who was now sitting on a bar stool and taking a sip of his beer. Sam of course was listening to Ruby's every word.
"Why? Who is she?" Sam asked.
Ruby shook her head, "No idea, but I'm thinking that she's important cause the order is to capture her alive. I just figured that whatever the deal is, you might want to find this girl before the demons do."
Lia didn't know if she should even trust Ruby with this. What if she was just leading them into a trap? She was a demon after all. Was Ruby even telling them everything or was she keeping something from them? All these questions ran around in her head.
Sam looked over at Dean, "Look, maybe we should check it out."
Of course this wouldn't go well with Dean. Lia knew her best friend well and she knew that he did not like taking advice from demons or any kind of supernatural creature. Lia could blame him either, she didn't like doing that either. So she figured that Dean would tell some sort of lie, but it would be very obvious that it was a lie so then they would end up going on the hunt anyways.
"Actually we're working a case," Dean lied and winked. "But thanks."
"What case?" Ruby asked, not believing him.
Lia felt like hitting her head against the wall at the moment, Dean really couldn't think things through sometimes. Instead though, Lia just put her head on her forehead and looked down, slightly ashamed and not wanting to be seen at the moment. Dean wasn't being completely embarrassing but surely he knew by now that you couldn't just lie right to a demon and expect that it would believe you.
Dean continued to lie, "We got leads... big leads."
"Sound's dangerous," Ruby replied sarcastically.
Big leads... big leads? Come on Dean, you can do better than that! Lia thought. Of course Dean could sometimes be a pro at lying but when it wasn't rehearsed in his head it could just be plain embarrassing. Like the fact that Dean always has a fake occupation that would be rehearsed over and over. However, when he was supposed to lie right on the spot, sometimes it could be completely obvious and sometimes he manages to pull it off.
"Yeah, well it's sure better than goose-chasing after some chick -who for all we know, doesn't even exist- just because you say she's important!" Dean snapped.
"I'm just delivering the news. You can do whatever you want with it. As far as I'm concerned I told you, I'm done!" Ruby exclaimed.
Dean gave a look that he didn't really give a damn what she said and that he was fine she was leaving. Ruby was about to walk away but Sam stopped her and Lia sighed. She then took Dean's beer just as he was about to drink from it and she took a large swig of it. Then she handed the beer back to Dean and he rolled his eyes at her and took a sip of his beer.
"Wait, wait, wait does this hospital that Anna escaped from got a name?" Sam asked her
The next thing Lia knew was that she was in the backseat of the Impala. Sam was in shot-gun, making a phone call. Dean was driving and Lia didn't even dare to even look at him. Dean was pissed, Lia was unhappy, and Sam was content. Thanks to Ruby they were now working on this stupid case.
"Can I get a copy of the missing persons report?" Sam asked into his cell, then a few seconds later he spoke again. "Great, okay, thanks. Well Anna Milton's definitely real."
"Don't mean that the case is real. This hospital is a three day drive," Dean complained.
Sam was trying to convince Dean that they should work on this case and Dean was trying to convince Sam that they shouldn't work on this case. The brother's always fought quite a lot, but Lia knew that they'd still do anything for each other. But their fighting was sort of getting on her nerves. She hated seeing them fight and bicker at each other.
"You've driven further for less Dean." Sam told him.
Dean shook his head, it was an annoyed sort of shake. Lia figured that the fight would escalate a bit, but then it would calm down and neither of them would speak to each other.
Sam had saw the look Dean had given, "You got something to say? Say it."
Lia's mind trailed off and she remembered the worst fight that the brothers ever had. It was just after they found out that Sam had been exorcising demons with his mind.
Dean went straight to the bed and started packing, taking his stuff and hers. They had just gotten back from a diner after Dean told her coldly that they didn't need Sam. She of course didn't say anything, she didn't want to make Dean more upset than he already was and she didn't want to say anything bad about Sam, even if what he did was wrong.
Sam was sitting at the table reading a book before they came in. When they did walk in he looked up at them both, slightly confused. Dean was now putting his stuff into his green duffel bag and Lia was just standing in the door way. Not saying anything. Not wanting to say anything.
"Dean what are you doing?" Sam asked as he stood up. "Are you leaving?"
"You don't need us. You and Ruby go fight demons," Dean said. "Lia, come on and help me pack."
Lia didn't want to piss Dean off so she did as he requested. She walked over to the bed and grabbed her knife from under the pillow, and some of her clothes; stuffing them into her purple duffel bag. Dean had packed so quickly that he was already heading towards the door. Lia had no choice but to follow him.
"Come on you two." Sam pleaded, in his voice there was the sound of him thinking that they were being ridiculous.
Dean turned around and punched Sam square in the jaw. Lia blinked with surprise and gasped a little, but she wasn't going to break up their fight. Sam deserved it somewhat. How could he not know that what he was doing was completely wrong? She watched the brothers quietly.
"You satisfied?" Sam asked, facing Dean again, a bit of blood on his bottom lip now.
Dean punched him again, throwing his stuff on the ground in the process. Sam wiped the blood away from his mouth; Lia and Dean were glaring at him. But Dean looked more pissed than Lia was. When Dean was angry it scared her slightly, but she saw in his eyes that he was torn between anger and upset.
"Guess not." Sam said rather quietly.
"Do you even know how far off the reservation you've gone?" Dean asked him. "How far from normal. From human?"
Lia knew that no matter what Dean said, Sam still wouldn't understand it completely. Ruby had done this to him. She had managed to get him to think that this was all completely fine. That it wasn't bad at all. But Sam didn't know what Castiel had told them. She knew that if they didn't convince Sam to stop then the angels would probably kill him.
"I'm just exorcising Dean." Sam argued.
"With your mind!" Dean yelled. "What else can you do?"
"I can send them back to hell. It only works with demons and that's it." Sam said.
Dean clearly wasn't believing it. Lia didn't blame Dean of course, since Sam lied to Dean. But then again, Dean lied to Sam, but Lia couldn't tell Sam that, she promised Dean she wouldn't, and she kept her promises, most of the time at least. Lia just put her duffel bag onto the table and watched with a frown on her face.
"What else can you do?" Dean had taken Sam's shirt into his fists.
Sam moved Dean's hands off his shirt, "I already told you!"
Lia wasn't sure if Sam was completely telling the truth, how could they trust him now? He hadn't even told his own brother. But then again... Dean had told her that he remembered hell, and now he was keeping that from Sam as well. They were lying so much to each other, it was heart-breaking.
It was silent for a moment, then Dean spoke, "and I have every reason in the world to believe that?"
Dean then started to walk away from Sam, and Lia let out a sigh. She hated the fact that they were fighting, she hated seeing them fight. However, she didn't like what Sam was doing either and Dean was the only person who was trying to put some sense into his younger brother.
"Look I should have said something. I'm sorry Dean, I am. But try to see the other side." Sam said; pleading ringed in his voice.
"The other side?" Dean turned back to Sam.
What was the other side? This didn't feel like a heads-or-tails situation. Then again, she wasn't really thinking straight right now and she knew Dean wasn't really either. They had found out that Sam was doing some dark stuff behind their backs and he clearly didn't think that it was bad. How could they convince him that what he was doing wasn't good?
"I'm pulling demons out of innocent people." Sam said.
"Use the knife!" Dean yelled loudly.
Lia had jumped a bit when Dean had yelled. God he was so scary when he was angry. She knew this was the worst fight she had ever seen them in. They could both be just scary when they got angry, however Dean was a lot scarier. She just hoped that he wouldn't hurt Sam more. Even if he did deserve it.
"The knife kills the victim. What I do most of them survive," Sam pleaded. "Look I've saved more people in the last five months, than we save in a year."
It was dead silent for a moment. Sure Sam had a good argument, but Lia knew this couldn't end well. It was clear that Ruby taught Sam how to do this, and Lia wasn't happy about that at all. She would probably would kill Ruby the next time she saw the bitch. All Lia could think have was hate for Ruby at the moment.
"That what Ruby want you to think?" Dean asked. "Huh? The kind of the way she treating you to use your 'powers'? Slippery slope brother. Just wait and see. Cause it's gonna get darker, and darker, and god knows where it ends."
"I'm not gonna let it go too far." Sam said with truth in his voice.
Dean looked away for a moment, then he walked over to a lamp, and he hit it with a lot of force and sent it flying across the room, it just missed Lia by inches. Lia jumped with surprise and she frowned, God he was scary when he was pissed. She watched as he turned back to face Sam.
"It's already gone too far Sam," Dean said. "If I didn't know you, I would wanna hunt you. And so would other hunters."
Lia blinked in surprise, she almost felt hurt that Dean would say that. Lia could only imagine what Sam was feeling; Lia bit her lip and got closer to the brothers. Lia looked at Dean, and he had coldness in his eyes, while when she looked at Sam, she saw hurt in his. She wanted to comfort them both, but she couldn't do that when they were yelling at each other.
"You were gone. I was here. I had to keep on fighting without you, and what I'm doing... it works." Sam said; he was already close to tears.
"Then tell me. If it's so terrific, then why did you lie about it to us?" Dean asked as he looked over at Lia and then back at his brother. "Why did an angel, tell me to stop you?"
It was out, Dean finally told Sam that Castiel and the other angels didn't approve of what Sam was doing. She watched as Sam's face changed into surprise. She just prayed that Sam would stop, and that Dean would stop fighting with his brother. She hated seeing them fight
Sam blinked with surprise, "What?"
"Cas said that if we don't stop you, he will. So you know what that means Sam? That means that God doesn't want you doing this. So you just going to stand there telling me that everything is 'all good?'" Dean asked rhetorically.
Before Sam could answer his brother however, his cell started to ring.
Then Lia snapped out of the flashback, she realized that she hadn't missed anything. Sam and Dean were still arguing about this 'case'. She let out a sigh and part of her wished she had missed it. She closed her eyes somewhat painfully as she listened to Dean's answer.
"Oh I'm saying it, this sucks," Dean told him.
"You're not pissed about going after the girl, you're pissed Ruby threw us the tip," Sam pointed out.
Lia heard a bit of tiredness in Sam's voice. He was already tired of fighting with Dean. Lia couldn't blame him for that, they fought practically 24/7 and Lia usually was the one who calmed Dean down. After that fight about Sam exorcising demons with his mind, she was the one who calmed Dean down for hours before they hit the road. She would always be there for Dean and Sam. No matter what.
Dean agreed, "Right, because as far as you're concerned, the hell-bitch is practically family. Boy something major must have happened while I was downstairs because I come back and you're BFF with a demon? And I mean poor Lia has no idea what's going on either. She's only known us for almost half a year."
Sam rested his head against the window, "I told you Dean, she helped me go after Lilith."
When Dean had tried to drag Lia into this fight she felt herself lower in her seat so that neither of them could see her. Why did Dean have to bring her into fights? She hated it when that happened. It was like he was forcing her to be on his side for everything, almost like he was trying to make Sam feel like he had no one on his side for everything. She couldn't help but feel sorry for Sam, everyone was always so hard on him and he could never be normal as soon as Azazel did whatever he did to him. All Sam wanted was to be normal, and Dean was trying to help but it just wasn't working.
"Well thanks for the thumbnail, real vivid," Dean retorted sarcastically. "You wanna fill in a little detail?"
Sam sat up straight, sick with Dean's attitude, "Sure Dean, lets trade stories. You first, how was hell? Don't spare the details."
At once, Sam had won the fight as soon as he played that card. When Dean admitted to Sam that he remembered hell, Sam tried to get Dean to tell him what happened. Unfortunately, Dean wouldn't tell him. Plus he never told Lia either. They were all hiding something from each other.
Fortunately, the boys stopped fighting, but they wouldn't talk to each other either. They both looked as though they were remembering something. Sam was probably remembering something about Ruby and Dean was probably remembering hell, or at least trying not to remember hell.
However, Lia was trying not to think of her little secret, and she looked out the window. Dean and Sam probably didn't even suspect she was hiding something from them and she hoped that it would stay that way. She didn't want to tell anybody, she hadn't ever breathed a word about it since it happened. Only the demons and angels knew, her friends and everyone else were stuck in the dark.
"Of course, I wanna help however I can," The psychiatrist told them.
"The orderly has no recollection of Anna's escape?" Sam asked.
They were currently in the hospital that Anna had escaped from. Lia was standing beside Sam, looking at the woman who was Anna's psychiatrist. Dean was looking around the room quietly, it was Anna's room before she has escaped. The three of them were currently posing as FBI agents. Dean and Sam were both wearing their suits and Lia was wearing her top, jacket-y thing, black skirt, leggings, and high heels.
When they hadn't arrived at the hospital yet Dean would joke around and pretend to check her out and say things like: Nice legs or you look good in that skirt, although it could be shorter. This would earn Dean a very cold look and he would shut up immediately.
Lia absolutely hated what she was wearing. It was extremely uncomfortable. Plus she was so used to wearing her black leather jacket, a spaghetti strap top, ripped jeans, and regular shoes. Not high heels and a skirt. If she didn't need her FBI clothes so much she would have burned them a long time ago. She didn't give a damn who liked what she was wearing, she just wanted her regular clothes back. But she would have to suck it up and deal with it.
"Apparently she knocked him unconscious," The psychiatrist explained. "The blow caused some amnesia. He doesn't even remember coming into her room."
Dean jumped into the conversation, "Hell of a right hook to knock out a guy that's got 80 pounds on her."
Dean was right, that was quite strange for a girl to actually knock a man unconscious. Well a girl who was insane and didn't seem to have taken any karate classes. Of course, Lia could do it easily, but she had had lots of practice with fighting and everything.
"We think she might have planned this- waited behind the door," The psychiatrist added.
Lia nodded, "Of course. Now you mentioned that Anna's illness was recent."
Perhaps they could get more information about why Anna became crazy or what happened while she was here. They might just be able to figure out why the demons want her so badly. She must be important if they want her. Of course they would have to find Anna first. The psychiatrist had moved outside of the room, but the three weren't done asking questions yet so they followed her.
"Two months ago she was happy, well adjusted, journalism major, lots of friends... bright future," The psychiatrist explained.
"So what, she just flipped?" Dean asked.
Now that Lia thought about it, she had never actually really met a crazy person. Sure when people find out that the supernatural is real they go a little crazy, but she hadn't actually met someone who were locked into a mental hospital because they went that crazy.
"That's the tragedy of schizophrenia. Within weeks Anna was overtaken by illusions," The psychiatrist told them.
Lia blinked, "What kind of illusions?"
Of course, Lia had a feeling that what Anna wasn't seeing wasn't illusions at all. Perhaps the psychiatrist would tell them something that might bring them one step closer to finding out why the demons wanted her so bad. Or maybe this had something to do with the 66 seals.
"She thought demons were everywhere," The psychiatrist answered.
"Interesting..." Dean replied.
The psychiatrist handed Sam what looked like a sketch book. Lia could only wonder what Anna had drawn inside of it. When Sam opened it Lia saw there was a picture of one of those beautiful glass windows you see on Church's. She figured it was a Church because there was a cross right above it. So Anna was religious... that was very interesting.
The psychiatrist continued, "It's not uncommon for our patients to believe that monsters are real."
"That's just batty," Dean lied, trying to make it convincing that he agreed.
Dean looked back at the sketchbook and all three of them looked at every single drawing on the pages. When Sam flipped the page, however, they were shocked to see: "RAISING OF THE WITNESSES" In big creepy bold letters. The symbol for this was also on the page.
Back around just after meeting the two brothers, Lia and the two went to Bobby's house to talk. Apparently Dean had just found out that he had been taken out of hell by an angel named Castiel. Bobby had called a hunter friend of his, Olivia Lowry, to get more information on angels.
It had been when Olivia hadn't called back, that the four of them went to her place to check on her. They had found her body lying on the ground, with salt around and an EMF meter not far away. They knew she had been killed by a spirit. When they called more of Bobby's friends they didn't get any answers from their cells either.
They soon found out that they were being hunted by the spirits as well. Sam had seen the ghost of Hendrickson, and the dead FBI agent tried to kill him until Dean came in and saved him. When they got back to Bobby's they found out what was going on. It was the Rising of the Witnesses, from the book of revelations. They realized that the apocalypse would soon be upon them.
However, Bobby found out how to get rid of all the spirits. When Bobby did the incantation, the brothers and Lia were forced to shoot at the ones who they couldn't save. Lia saw her mother and Lexi, her former hunter apprentice after her untimely death. Eventually they got rid of all the spirits. Later on Castiel appeared to Dean and told him about the 66 seals. When the last seal was broken then Lucifer would walk free.
Naturally, there were more than 66 seals and the first demon created, named Lilith, was breaking them. This was a problem since nobody knew which seal Lilith would break next. Although Lia seemed to be right about one thing, this did have something to do with the 66 seals somehow if this girl Anna knew about them.
Lia turned to the next page and in big creepy bold words again said: "SAMHAIN. THE NEXT SEAL IS BROKEN." Under this was a man who was undoubtedly Samhain. All Lia wanted to know at the moment was how did Anna know about all the seals? This case was just getting weirder and weirder.
Not very long ago, the three were on another hunt that had to do something with the seals being broken. They didn't find out that it had anything to do with the seals until Castiel and another angel named Uriel appeared in their motel room. They explained that a witch in town was trying to raise Samhain.
On the night of Halloween the witch would kill the final sacrifice. Once the witch said a spell then Samhain would rise and that would break the seal. However the angels couldn't find out who the witch was, so they planned to destroy the town completely and everyone in it. The three managed to convince the angels not to do that and soon they were on their way to kill the witch.
Unfortunately, they did not succeed and the seal was broken, Samhain had risen. Sam went after Samhain and expelled Samhain from the body with his mind. Neither Dean nor Lia were happy with this as they witnessed it. Sam went against Dean's wishes. The angels were not happy with Sam, but because he managed to get rid of Samhain they didn't kill him.
"Its revelations," Dean stated.
"Since when does the book of revelations have jack-'o-lanterns?" The psychiatrist asked skeptically.
Lia looked at Dean and saw he was trying to figure out of something to say. She tried not to smirk as she imagined Dean thinking hard. She loved to tease him sometimes and he liked flirting with her but of course not really meaning any of it. But they were best friends, they always would be.
"It's a little known translation," Dean answered.
The psychiatrist nodded, "Ah, well Anna's father was a Church deacon. When she became ill her paranoia took over religious overtones. She was convinced the devil was about to rise up and end the world. I hope you find her. It's dangerous for her to be out there alone right now."
The three of them nodded at the exact same time. Sure they would find Anna, but they most likely weren't going to bring her back into the crazy institution. Lia thanked the psychiatrist for her time and the three of them walked out of the mental hospital. Their minds were asking a lot of questions that they just couldn't answer.
Soon they were walking up to Anna's house, going to have a talk with her parents. The house was fairly simple and plain, it looked slightly old but in good shape. Dean rapped his knuckles on the front door, Sam stood beside his brother, and Lia was looking around.
Right beside the door had a sign that read clearly: The Miltons. However, no Milton or anybody opened the door which was odd. In fact, Lia looked over to the right and saw that there were two cars in the driveway. So why wasn't anybody answering the door? Lia already had a bad feeling about this.
"Maybe they're not home," Dean told them.
Lia raised an eyebrow, "How is that possible? There are two cars in the driveway."
No one knew what to do for a moment, then Dean reached his hand out to the door knob and he opened the door. He looked at Sam and Lia slightly surprised. It was quite strange to find that the door had been unlocked when it should have been locked in the first place. The first thing that hit Lia was a strange smell, although she tried to ignore it.
Dean looked around the corner of the door, "Mrs. Milton?"
"We're from the Sheriff's department. We just wanted to ask you a couple questions," Sam added.
The three walked slowly into the house, Dean went into the left wing while Sam and Lia went into the right wing. The funny smell was much stronger now, it got stronger with every step she took. She knew what the smell was but she wouldn't believe it until she saw it with her own eyes.
That request was soon given as Sam and Lia both saw Mr. and Mrs. Milton laying on the ground with both their throat's slashed and two small pools of blood on the rug and hard-wood floor. Sam let out a heavy sigh and soon Dean came up and stood beside Lia.
Sam crouched down by Mrs. Milton's body and he set his fingers on some sort of substance and took a whiff of it. He quickly put his hand away from his nose and he grimaced a bit. It was fairly obvious of what he had smelled, it was of a yellow color and it was powdery.
Sam cleaned the sulfur off his fingers, "Sulfur, the demons beat us here. Whatever the deal is with this Anna girl-"
"Yeah, they want her. They're not screwing around," Dean cut Sam off. "Alright so, I'm Girl Interrupted. I know the score of the apocalypse, just busted out of the nut-box, possibly using super-powers by the way. Where do I go?"
Lia spotted a stack of letters and she took them and looked through them to see if any of them were important. Of course, none of them were. She glanced up and saw Sam was looking at a mantel. On top of the mantel were pictures. Like Anna's graduation photo, pictures of the family, and a picture of some Church. Sam picked up a picture, the one of the Church, Lia wondered why he thought that one was so special.
"Hey, you got those sketches from Anna's notebook?" Sam asked Dean.
"Yeah," Dean answered.
Why did Sam want to see the sketches? Perhaps he had some clue of where Anna could possibly be. Lia hoped so of course, she wanted to get to the bottom of this hunt very quickly. She put the letters back where they belonged and Sam stepped towards Dean who was taking out Anna's sketchbook.
"Let me see 'em," Sam told his brother and he flipped to a certain page in the book. "Check this out."
Sam set the picture onto the dining room table, and he put the sketchbook beside it. There was the window that Anna had drawn, the one Lia thought had belonged to a Church. In the photo was a Church and it had the same window on it that Anna had drawn.
"Of course..." Lia muttered, some of this was starting to make sense now.
Sam looked at the two, "If you were religious, scared, and had demons on your ass, where would you go to feel safe?"
All three of them had gone to change back into their normal clothes, then soon they were walking up the stairs of the Church, heading into the attic. They all had their guns drawn and poised to attack anything that could pop up and try to kill them. None of them knew what to expect, but they hoped that Anna would still be there and still be alive. They walked through the door of the attic and looked around.
The place was what anyone would expect an attic to be like, however instead, this attic had a lot of religious stuff. For example, there was a statue of the Virgin Mary, there were a few other things like a couple paintings. It wasn't exactly eye-opening. Although, Sam had a look on his face that said he saw something.
"Dean, Lia," Sam whispered as he pointed his gun into a certain direction.
The three were slowly walking to one of those beautiful windows, however much smaller. It was clear that something must be behind it. Sam put his gun away first, then Dean and Lia did the same, seeing as there was no current threat at the moment. It was then that Sam spoke once again.
"Anna? We're not gonna hurt you. We're here to help. My name is Sam, this is my brother, Dean and my good friend, Lia." Sam introduced them all.
A voice that was slightly muffled replied, "Sam? Not Sam Winchester?"
Lia knew at once it was Anna, although she couldn't see the girl, it was clearly a woman's voice that spoke. Plus who else would be hiding from something? However, Lia wondered why she had sounded a bit frightened by Sam. Sam wasn't scary at all, even though he was very tall and was sort of dark side at the moment, Lia had never met anyone as sweet and sensitive as Sam.
Sam was startled by her response, "Uh, yeah."
Anna walked out from her hiding place, "And you're Dean? The Dean?"
Anna didn't look at all different from the photos at her house, she had the same darker red long hair and the same warm brown eyes that were almost welcoming. It appeared as though Anna knew them before though. It sounded so in the way that she spoke. How was this possible?
"Well, yeah. The Dean, I guess," Dean answered, startled as well.
"It's really you. Oh, my god. The angels talk about you. You were in Hell, but Castiel pulled you out, and some of them think you can help save us," Anna told Dean, then she looked at Lia and gasped. "And you! You're Lia Mysterie! The angels talk about you as well! You're the girl from the prophecies, they didn't know it at first but now they are certain," Anna then looked at Sam, "And some of them don't like you at all. They talk about you all the time lately. I feel like I know you."
How on Earth could Anna talk to angels? Lia was also amazed by the fact that Anna had mentioned something about Lia being in some sort of prophecy. What exactly was this prophecy about? Lia wanted answers badly but she wasn't exactly sure if she would be getting them anytime soon.
"Wait so- you can talk to angels?" Lia asked the red-headed woman.
Anna shook her head, "Oh, no, no way. They probably don't even know I exist I just kind of... overhear them."
Alright so maybe Anna couldn't directly speak to the angels, however, Lia hadn't met an honest-to-God person who could actually overhear the angels speaking. Wouldn't it be a bit painful though? Dean and Sam had told her about a physic who had seen Castiel's true form and her eyes were burned out. Then when Castiel tried to speak to Dean, it came out as this horrible high-pitched noise.
Although, Dean had mentioned something about Castiel saying that specific people could actually listen to what an angel was saying, because only certain people could actually not hear that loud ringing noise when angels actually spoke. Perhaps Anna was one of them. But by having the ability to listen to them all and them not speaking directly to her was no average feat.
"You overhear them?" Sam asked, astonished.
"Yeah, they talk, and sometimes I just... hear them in my head," Anna replied.
The look on Anna's face when she said that was just amazing itself. She started off as like it was the most normal thing in the world, but then when she had realized what she said, she found out of crazy it sounded. But Anna wasn't crazy. Not to them at least. She was just a girl who was getting pushed into the battlefield of demons. Left to be fought for.
Lia blinked, "Can you hear them... right now?"
Anna shook her head, "Not right this second, but a lot. And I can't shut them out, there are so many of them."
At this Lia wondered how many angels there actually were. She only knew of two of them. Castiel and Uriel. She had no idea what they would be saying. Most importantly, she didn't know how Anna could actually hear them speaking. It was incredible! It wasn't like Lia wanted to be in her position of course, she didn't want to be in hiding from demons.
"Wait- so you're telling us that they just locked you up in that crazy hospital just because you can listen to angels?" Lia asked in disbelief.
This seemed to make Anna feel a bit better, "Yes. Thank you."
Anna smiled at Lia, and she couldn't help but smile back. Anna was a nice, sweet, and innocent girl. She didn't deserve to be dragged into this mess. It wasn't her choice to be able to talk to angels. Then again, it wasn't Lia's choice for her father to kill her mother back when Lia was just a teenager. But she tore that thought out of her head, not wanting to remember.
"Anna, when did the voices start?" Sam asked. "Do you remember?"
"I can tell you exactly- September 18th," Anna answered.
Lia blinked with surprise, she knew she wasn't there at the time, but she did remember Dean and Sam saying a while back. But how? Of course it did make a bit of sense. That was around the time when the angels started popping up more and more, and then of course with the whole sixty-six seals thing as well. However, it was still surprising.
Dean looked at Sam and Lia, "The day I got out of Hell."
"First words I heard, clear as a bell- 'Dean Winchester is saved,'" Anna finished.
Lia was still looking at Dean, his face only showed shock. Even though no one seemed to notice it, Lia did. She knew the expression well. The way he moved ever so slightly, and how his eyes were a bit wider. She put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him a bit and get him out of his shock. Dean looked down at her, then when Lia moved her hand he looked at Sam.
"What do you think?" Dean asked.
Sam scoffed a little, "It's above my pay grade, man."
Lia had to admit, she agreed with Sam. This was big. And although she still hated Ruby for giving them the case, she had to admit that this was something that she hadn't seen before. Then again, it wasn't as bad as the huge teddy bear or going back in time to before she was born. The Winchesters seemed to run into the weirdest hunts she had ever seen.
"Well at least now we know why the demons want you so bad," Lia told Anna. "I mean someone who can listen to angels? They can find out all about what the angels are saying if they get a grip on you. You're like a cute little talking radio station."
Anna smiled a bit at Lia, then decided to change the subject, "Hey, um, do you know - are my parents okay? I-I didn't go home. I was afraid."
Right then, Lia felt in an awkward position. She didn't want to tell Anna that her parents were killed by demons. She was also a hundred percent sure that neither Dean nor Sam wanted to tell Anna the bad news as well. After all, they all had lost their parents, it would be terrible to tell another person that. However, they seemed to be saved since right then, Ruby burst into the room.
"You got the girl. Good, let's go," Ruby ordered them.
Anna widened her eyes and stepped back a couple of paces, "Her face!"
Lia wasn't so excited to see Ruby, she didn't trust the demon at all. Then again she didn't trust any demon at all. No matter what. They were just pure evil, lying, bastards, and she hated them. Ruby wouldn't be any kind of exception since she 'acted' like she was a good demon.
Sam put up his hand, "its okay, she's here to help."
"Yeah, don't be so sure," Dean added.
Lia definitely had to agree with Dean. For all she knew, Ruby might just want to take Anna to the demons. Although, Ruby did seem to be in a pretty big hurry. She had to wonder why the demon seemed too desperate to get out of the Church. It was fairly strange. Was something after Anna?
"We have to hurry," Ruby told them
Lia blinked in confusion, "Why?"
None of this was making any sense, why did they have to go? Perhaps Ruby wanted to take Anna to the demons, although it seemed likely, Lia still wasn't so sure about that. She didn't have any idea what to believe at the moment. However, she still didn't know Ruby seemed almost... scared.
"Because a demon's coming- big-timer. We can fight later, Lia," Ruby told her.
Dean answered before Lia got the chance, "Well, that's pretty convenient - showing up right when we find the girl with some bigwig on your tail?"
Of course, Dean did have a point. It was a bit odd that right when they found the girl that the demons have been looking for, Ruby shows up telling them that they have to leave. What if Ruby was lying or what if she had purposely found the demon and led him or her to where they were?
"I didn't bring him here. You did," Ruby informed.
Lia blinked, "What?"
How could they have brought the demon to the Church? Lia hadn't even seen a single demon since they last saw Ruby. Then again, this was a demon they were fairly skilled at hiding. However, if all of this was true, then that meant that they needed to get out of the Church, and fast.
"He followed you from the girl's house. We got to go now," Ruby answered hurriedly.
"Dean, Lia," Sam attempted to get their attention.
Both Lia and Dean looked at Sam, he seemed to be pointing at something. Their gazes followed to what he was pointing at. There, was a statue of the Virgin Mary, it all seemed normal until something appeared to be falling down her eyes. Something... red. What kind of demon could do that?
Ruby's voice seemed defeated, "It's too late. He's here."
"What do you mean?" Lia asked as she turned to face the demon. "Who is this demon?"
Out of the corner of her eye, Lia saw Sam take Anna by her arm and hide her into a closet, so that she would be hidden. Lia hoped that the demon wouldn't find her in there. Then she saw Dean walk up to the statue, he only stared at it, which to Lia, this seemed a bit odd. However, soon he looked away.
Sam came back and he took out a flask. Lia knew only too well that this flask contained holy water. However, for some reason, Lia wasn't sure if this would even be enough, she hadn't ever seen a demon make blood fall from a statues eyes, although, she had seen a lot more than that.
Ruby shook her head, "No, Sam, you got to pull him right away."
Lia widened her eyes, "Are you serious?"
Was Ruby crazy? They had just got Sam out of pulling demons out of bodies. All because the angels had told them to get Sam to stop. Now all of a sudden Ruby was trying to get Sam back into it. Lia wondered what Ruby was doing, and why she was doing all of this. Most of all, Lia wanted to know what she was planning.
"Now's not the time to bellyache about Sam going dark-side. He does his thing, he exorcises that demon, or we die," Ruby told both Lia and Dean.
However, Lia couldn't help but notice the fear in Ruby's voice. It was surprising to hear a demon sound scared about another demon. Then again, perhaps Ruby was just faking it, it was possible of course. Although, Ruby did have a point, but Lia didn't completely agree with it, and she would never admit that she felt a part of it was alright.
Sam looked at all three of them, the look on Dean's face almost made Lia feel kind of sad. His face showed how scared he was and upset with his wide eyes. Although, he was positively adorable, Lia would never think this though. For the first time in a long time, Dean didn't know what to say.
At least Sam knew what to do, he and decided on what he was going to do after a few seconds of thought and consideration. Lia knew the look on his face almost too well, that determined look he wore which was fairly close to his serious look. Sam had put the flask into his pocket.
Dean looked extremely disappointed in his younger brother, but this didn't stay for too long because right then the door blasted open with a loud bang, and Lia jumped a little with surprised, she was a bit afraid, but she didn't understand why. Then the demon walked up the stairs and into the room.
The demon on the outside didn't look overly terrifying, he seemed to have taken a vessel that had a jacket on and a blue shirt, so he looked like someone who had just finished a dinner-date. The demon had a cold malicious look plastered onto his face. He was clearly an older man who had his balding hair combed over.
Ruby took in a big gulp of air and held her breath from fear of this demon. Sam raised his hand and concentrated on the demon, trying to pull the demon out of the man's body. Lia took Dean's hand tightly from a bit of fear. He was clearly trying not to gasp in pain.
Sam brought his hand up and tried to exorcise the demon with his mind. However the normal eyes changed to demon eyes, but the demon didn't seem to be in much pain, in fact the demon put his hand to his throat then his eyes changed back to normal. Lia knew that this wasn't a good thing.
The demon let out a cough, "That tickles. You don't have the juice to take me on, Sam."
The demon took a step towards Sam. Sam looked thoroughly surprised, Lia bet that he was sure that expelling the demon out of the body with his powers would have worked. However the look of surprise quickly turned into a look of pure terror. That terror was justified for what came next.
The demon made a motion with his hand, making it look like he was pulling Sam towards him. Although Sam didn't crash into the demon, he was suddenly being pulled, he flew across the room and smashed into the banister of the stairs. Lia could hear him falling down the stairs. Thump, thump, thump. She desperately wanted to help him and make sure he was okay.
So she started to run towards Sam, but the demon used his mind-powers and pinned Lia to a wall and she was forced to watch what happened next. Lia saw how angry Dean was, he looked pissed when he demon flung Sam down the stairs, but when the demon pinned Lia to the wall, well, there were just no words to describe his anger.
"Lia!" Dean shouted, hoping she was okay.
Lia groaned but she gave him an 'okay' sign with her fingers. Dean then turned to look at the demon, he took out his demon-killing knife then lunged at the demon. Sadly, the demon blocked Dean from killing him, but Dean still tried to kill the demon as best as he could.
Lia was basically forced to watch all of this, she didn't really want to, and she prayed that her best friend didn't get hurt. Then she suddenly realized how ironic it was that a demon was in the Church. She quickly pushed this thought aside, she shouldn't be thinking about that at the moment
The demon looked into Dean's eyes and he gave a cold smile that made Lia shiver a little. The look he gave the older brother was malicious and evil, not that demons weren't evil but this was pure evil. Although, the look the demon gave Dean... it was a look as if they knew each other from someplace.
"Hello again Dean," The demon greeted, trying to sound innocent and not at all bothered by the fact that Dean had just tried to kill him.
The demon's movements were quick as he pinned Dean to the wall that was opposite of Lia, she heard Dean's loud grunt of pain and soon he dropped the knife. Lia didn't want to look and see what would happen next, because she could already guess.
All of a sudden Lia heard screaming from behind her, she wanted to turn and look at what was going on, but sadly she couldn't because she was pinned to the wall from the demon's powers. Although she recognized the scream's as Anna's. She knew that the demon hadn't brought any other demon friends, the only thing Lia could think of that was probably taking Anna was Ruby. It was either so that Ruby could take Anna to safety and away from demons, which Lia doubted a little, or that Ruby was taking Anna back to all the demons so that they could use the girl to listen in on what the angels were saying. Lia just hoped that it wasn't the second one, or else she would tear Ruby apart for hurting her new friend.
Then Lia turned her attention back to Dean and the demon, which she didn't exactly want to do, but it was better than listening to Anna's poor screams. Lia had no idea what Sam was doing at the moment, perhaps he was unconscious. However, all Lia could do was watch Dean and the demon. Suddenly the demon started to punch Dean in the face multiple times, and Lia wriggled, trying to get out of the demon's mind-grasp on her.
Apparently, the demon must have noticed this because he turned to look at Lia, his hand was gripping Dean tight and still pushing him hard against the wall, the only thing that stood out from him was the red liquid coming from his nose. The demon gave Lia a dark smile.
"Hang tight in there Lia Prince, I'll get to you once I'm finished with this scrap of meat," The demon told her.
Lia growled at this and glared at the demon, she wanted to kill it so bad. Was he actually implying that she was married? The look on Dean's face told her that he was very confused about the situation. She really wanted to grab that demon killing knife and stab it through the demon's heart.
However, the demon turned his attention back to Dean. Lia couldn't see the demon's face, she could only stare at his ugly back head, and hear his voice as he spoke to Dean, who looked so helpless, and she wanted to help him so badly, with every fiber of her body.
"Come on, Dean. Don't you recognize me? Oh, I forgot- I'm wearing a pediatrician," At this the demon punched Dean hard again. "But we were so close... in Hell."
At this, Lia widened her eyes with surprise. She knew that Dean remembered hell, and after a long time, Dean eventually told his brother. However, he would never tell Lia or Sam about what happened when he was in hell, of course Lia couldn't blame him, but Sam would always press the subject, he always wanted to know what Dean remembered in hell.
Lia didn't understand why Sam would press Dean to tell him, sure Lia was a little bit disappointed, but she didn't want to know all the gory details. She knew that it would haunt Dean for the rest of his life. She also knew that Dean liked to bottle things up inside, and Lia did the exact same thing. She wouldn't want to talk about something as bad as hell. Never.
Dean looked at the demon for a long moment, as if he were trying to recall some painful memory, he must have remembered though because of the realization that dawned on his face. Clearly this demon was one who he knew well if he could figure it out that quickly.
"Alastair," Dean whispered.
Alastair gave a chuckle and he punched Dean again once more for what looked like it was just for the fun of it. Although Lia quickly saw Sam run up the stairs and pick up the demon-killing knife, and swiftly he stabbed Alastair. Sadly, Alastair didn't die, and Lia could clearly see the golden color of the demon inside.
Alastair quickly gave a yell from the sudden pain as the demon-killing knife went into him. The good news was that Lia suddenly felt the hold on her to be released. She was relieved to be able to move again and help Dean and Sam to kill Alastair.
Lia couldn't help but wonder why Alastair didn't die from the demon-killing knife. She did vaguely remember Ruby saying that Sam would have to use his mind to get Alastair out of the body, but Ruby didn't say that the knife wouldn't work. Did Ruby know that the knife wouldn't work against this demon?
The sad part about all of this was the fact that the body that Alastair was possessing was now dead, the only thing keeping him mobile was the demon inside him. That was the only flaw about Ruby's knife, the fact that it would kill the innocent person the demon was taking over.
"You're gonna have to try a whole lot harder than that, son," Alastair said to Sam coldly.
After that Alastair pushed Sam away from him and turned, trying to get the knife out of him, Lia knew it was only a matter of time before Alastair tried to kill them once again. So Lia took her chance and ran to Dean and helped him stand up, she knew he was in a lot of pain. Then Sam ran up to Dean and Lia to check if they were okay.
Lia knew what they were thinking though. They were all wondering how they were going to escape the Church and run away from Alastair, since Alastair was in the way of getting to the exit. The exit would be too slow anyways and he could easily catch up to them. How else could they leave?
Sam seemed to have a solution because he quickly glanced at the large glass window, then he looked back to Dean and Lia as if communicating in silence. Lia didn't want to do it at all, but she knew it was their only option of getting away from Alastair.
The three of them all ran to the glass window, but only Dean and Sam jumped through. Lia had stopped at the last second, she had a small fear of falling, and she didn't like how high up she was, she knew that she could very possibly get hurt by the fall.
Sam and Dean stood up and they looked around for her, then they looked up and saw her still standing there out of fear. She wanted to jump, and she knew that it would be a lot less painful than what Alastair would have planned for her, but she just couldn't move.
"I'll catch you!" Dean yelled up at her.
Lia heard these words and she gave a small smile at the reassurance in her friend's voice. So she closed her eyes and jumped out the window, she felt herself falling and she hoped Dean would catch her and not let her fall to the ground. Soon she had landed into a soft landing, a pair of arms held her.
Lia slowly opened her eyes, expecting to see Dean smiling at her, instead it was Sam. Lia smiled back brightly at her friend, thankful for him catching her. Then reality set back in and she realized that they should get going and quickly since Alastair would already have the knife out by now.
Sam seemed to realize this as well because he quickly put Lia down safely onto the ground. Dean gave a look at surprise to his brother, but quickly shook it off as they ran to the Impala. Lia could imagine Alastair's face, looking down at them as they drove away hurriedly.
Then she realized that Alastair now had Ruby's knife. Which would be very bad since they would need the knife to later protect themselves from him or any other demon, but she was too focused on the road to think about all this right now. She was letting Dean and Sam rest, since they were the only ones who got hurt. She glanced at Dean in the mirror quickly, then she looked back to the road.
After a little while Lia had parked the Impala at their motel they were currently staying at. She got out of the driver's side of the car and helped Dean get out of the backseat. Sam was already at the door of their room and opening the door. Lia led Dean to their motel room and as soon as they walked in, Dean took control of himself again and he went into the bathroom.
Sam sat on the bed and he took off his jacket and rolled up the sleeve of his shirt so that he could sew his very deep cut he must have gained from when Alastair threw him down the stairs. Lia cringed a little but she went to Dean and took out a clean rag and started to clear off the blood from his face. When he was clean she went and got three beers from the mini-fridge in the room. She sat down on the second bed and looked at Sam as she popped off the cap off her own beer and took a long swig from it.
All of this 'Doctor' stuff was making her feel a little queasy, she tried not to look too much or else she figured she would throw up in the nearest toilet. She held down her bile and she slowly and reluctantly pulled the beer away from her lips. Sam was just about done sewing his cut and she watched as Dean took off his jacket and started to spit out blood into the sink.
"You better clean that sink," Lia said and wrinkled her nose in disgust. "I don't want to smell blood every single time I have to wash my hands."
Lia heard Dean gave a bit of a chuckle, then he spat into the sink again, this made Lia roll her eyes, yet she smiled softly. Sometimes all a person needed was a little joke after they got their ass kicked. Suddenly, Sam gave a loud grunt of pain as he was finishing. Lia could hear Dean taking some water and spiting that out as well.
"You almost done?" Dean asked.
Dean's voice came out as a croak of pain and strain. Lia could only imagine the pain he was going through at the moment. She was just glad that she didn't get any injuries, in fact she was very lucky for that. She knew though that if they had stayed there longer, then she would have terrible injuries.
Sam's breath quickened, "I'm going as fast as I can."
"Good cause I could use someone to help with my dislocated shoulder over here," Dean said.
Dean then looked at Lia, as if to ask if she would help him. Lia felt the bile churning with her as she imagined popping Dean's shoulder back in place, the thought of it made her sick. So she shook her head at Dean, knowing he would get the message. She did feel a bit bad about it though. She knew that if she had gotten hurt then he would have helped her.
If she wasn't so terrified of anything to do with hospitals then she would have helped Dean in a heartbeat. She thought it was a stupid fear for her to have, she hunted monsters and she was scared of hospitals instead. The logic in that wasn't very bright.
Then Dean started to move towards Lia. Of course, being his best friend, she knew what he wanted. So she opened the beer for him and handed it to him. Lia watched as he took a very long drink from the brownish amber bottle, she wondered if it would help him.
"Yeah," Sam replied. "I'll pop it back when I'm finished."
After Sam had said that, he finished sewing the last stitch, he took his scissors and he cut the left over thread. After that he started to breath heavily, and Lia knew what she had to do. Though she didn't like to do much with hospitals, she could handle cuts and smaller wounds, but nothing to do with bones. So she moved quickly.
First she opened the beer bottle and handed it to Sam, when he was drinking it, Lia took a rag and poured some whiskey onto it. She walked up to Sam and very gently dabbed on the wound, Sam gave a quiet grunt of pain, but after he got used to it. Once she finished this, she used the part of the rag that was untainted from the whiskey, and she cleaned up the blood gently. Soon she finished cleaning up around his wound and she threw the rag away.
"So you lost the magic knife huh?" Dean asked rhetorically.
"Yeah, saving your ass. Who the hell was that demon?" Sam asked seriously.
Sam of course, had brought up an interesting and good point. The only thing that Lia knew about that demon was that his name was Alastair, he was super bad-ass since the demon-killing knife clearly didn't kill him, and he was extremely powerful for being able to treat them all as though they were play-toys.
"No one good," Dean answered. "We gotta find Anna."
"Ruby's got her. I'm sure she's okay. All right. Come on," Sam slowly stood up and went to his brother.
Lia watched as Sam put his hand on his brother's dislocated shoulder. She bit her lip, hoping that she wouldn't need to have a friendly chat with the toilet. Dean pursed his lips and got ready as he put his hands on the ends on the bed, knowing full-well that this would hurt.
"On three. One..." Sam then snapped Dean's shoulder into place.
Lia heard the crunch and she could feel the bile coming up her throat, but she forced it down. It hurt her on the inside to heard Dean's loud groan of pain, but he quickly stood up straight and went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. Both the brothers were fairly sweaty, and Lia had to listen to them both breathing heavily, as if they had just ran a marathon.
Once Dean had regained his breath he asked: "you sure about Ruby? 'Cause I think it's just as likely she used us to find radio girl and then brought that demon in to kill us."
"No, she took Anna to keep her safe," Sam replied.
Lia of course could not hold down the scoff that she made, she just had a hard time believing that this demon could be actually helping them. It was as if saying that wolverine's weren't harmless. Demons were lying bastards, end of story, they just can't be trusted.
"You're kidding right?" Lia asked. "I mean you can't know that for sure. How come Ruby hasn't called us and told us that Anna is okay?"
"Because that demon is probably watching us right now, waiting to follow us right back to Anna again. That's why he let us go," Sam explained.
Of course, as usual, Sam did have a good theory. It didn't seem like it could be that far off, but Lia just didn't understand why he trusted a demon so much. She just wished that she could get some answers on things for once, but she doubted that she would get them.
Dean scoffed, "You call this 'letting us go'?"
"Yeah, I do. Look, killing us would've been no problem to that thing. That's why, for now, we just got to lay low and wait for Ruby to contact us," Sam told them.
Lia took a long swig of her beer, contemplating and thinking about what Sam had just said. She just wished that she could snap some sense into him, that Ruby was evil and manipulating him, but she knew she couldn't do that, because Sam was her friend.
"How is she exactly going to contact us, by using a freaking magical mirror?" Lia asked rhetorically. "Look Sam, I get that you trust her and everything but I gotta ask... why?"
Sam rolled his eyes, "I already told you the answer to that question."
At this Lia frowned at him, she couldn't help but wonder why Sam was being so complicated. In fact, he was being a bit of a hypocrite, because he was the one who wanted to know what Dean remembered from hell in the first place, but now all of a sudden he was being so secretive about Ruby. That wasn't being very fair to Dean.
Dean piped up, "You got to do better than that. Hey, and we're not trying to pick a fight here. I mean, we really want to understand. But we need to know more. I mean, we deserve to know more."
Sam wasn't really looking at either Dean or Lia, "Because... she saved my life."
At this Sam started to explain about what happened 6 months earlier, before Dean popped out of hell and before Lia met both of the brothers. Apparently after Bobby and Sam buried Dean, Sam just took off, trying to find a way how to bring Dean back.
So apparently the first thing that Sam did was get drunk, and so when he entered his hotel room he was instantly attacked by two demons. He wasn't sure who they both were until Ruby took back her knife and thanked Sam for keeping it, she also said that Lilith had given her another chance to redeem herself, and all she had to do was find Sam and then kill him.
Although instead of stabbing Sam, Ruby stabbed the demon that had been 'helping' her. She told Sam that they had to get moving, obviously because there could be others coming and they would wonder what happened to the demon who had recently been stabbed.
So Sam and Ruby got out of the room and got into the Impala (it belonged to Sam since Dean left it to him) and they hit the road. When they were on the road Ruby started to nag Sam about french fries, but clearly Sam wasn't in the mood, in fact he was pissed.
Then Ruby went on about how she went through a lot since Lilith tortured her in hell, then she said how hard it was for her to gain Lilith's trust again once more. This sounded odd to Lia, since when did Lilith trust anyone or give a person a second chance?
Then Ruby told Sam how she did it all for him and how she was just trying to help Sam. Sam came back with asking her if she could save Dean. Ruby of course said no. All of a sudden Sam parked the Impala to the side of the road and ordered her to get out.
However Ruby wouldn't get out, so Sam asked who she was possessing. Ruby was so stunned and told him that he never asked her that question, but when Sam insisted she said she was possessing a secretary. Then Sam ordered her to let the secretary go, so Ruby did just that.
Afterwards, Sam drove to an abandoned house to stay at for a while. (The secretary was perfectly fine and didn't remember a thing.) Then, as Sam was cleaning and loading his guns, there was a knock at the door. Sam stood up with a shotgun and answered the door.
There stood the Ruby that Dean and Lia recognized, she appeared to be holding some sort of hospital sheet, saying that the body she was using was alive, but a hundred percent socially unconscious. Sam asked why she was there and she told him that she could get him the revenge he wanted on Lilith for killing Dean.
This changed how Sam felt in an instant, he was all for it, ready to use his powers and to learn how to kill Lilith. Ruby agreed on the condition that he would be patient and sober, when Sam promised her he would do this, she told him that she would teach him everything that she knew.
"So what did she teach you?" Dean asked curiously.
Sam took a deep breath, "Well, first thing I learned, I'm a crappy student."
Then Sam started to explain his next memory, one where there was a demon involved, this demon was of course tied to a chair and trapped in a Devils Trap. Ruby was right beside the demon with the demon-killing knife in her hand, of course she wasn't actually in the trap.
Sam raised his hand to the demon and tried to expel the demon from the body it was possessing. However, the only thing that happened was that there was a little bit of smoke that came out of its mouth, but then the smoke shot right back into its host.
Sam tried this again but it didn't work the second time, in fact blood started to come out of Sam's nose from all the strain that it was putting him in and he got a headache. So Ruby stabbed the demon with the knife and the demon instantly died. Afterwards, Sam buried the body and then took some pain-killers. Ruby came in and told Sam not to worry, that it would get better.
Sam scoffed but Ruby told him that she was talking about Dean, however Sam cut her off, not wanting to hear it. Sam had tears in her eyes and told her he couldn't listen to her about this. Ruby then all of a sudden kissed him after saying he wasn't alone.
Then came the details that Sam was explaining about he and Ruby taking off each other's clothes and so on, then Lia and Dean cut him off quickly.
"Do you WANT me to throw up!?" Lia exclaimed. "You do not talk about this kind of stuff while a girl is in the room! Now I'm scarred for life!"
Dean agreed. "Too much information Sam, we do not want to think about that ever again."
Lia felt the bile already coming up her throat and she washed it down with beer. She took a deep breath, she had never felt so awkward in her life. It was just too weird and too... sickening to think about what Sam and Ruby did. She actually wanted to forget everything and cut out her brain so she wouldn't have to think about it.
"I was coming clean," Sam defended.
"Yeah but now I feel was dirty as anyone possibly could be," Lia rubbed her head. "So for that torture you just put us through, thank-you-very-much."
Of course she was being sarcastic, she looked over at Dean and he had his bottle of beer pressed to his forehead, looking as though he was in immense pain. She couldn't blame him of course since she felt the exact same way. She shuddered a little and shook her head, trying not to remember.
"So aside from all that... blech so far, all you've only told us about a manipulative bitch who, uh, screwed you, played mind games with you, and did everything in the book to get you to go bad," Dean added, annoyed.
"Yeah, well, there's more to the story," Sam explained.
Lia had to admit that she did want to hear more about what happened with Sam while Dean was in the pit. It was just that she wanted to know more about her friend, plus she hated it when people kept secrets. In fact, she was having a hard time keeping the secret from Sam about Dean remembering everything that happened to him in hell, but eventually Sam found out because Uriel blabbed.
"Just... skip the nudity, please," Dean begged.
Lia definitely had to agree with this one, she never wanted to hear anything like that again from anyone, especially her two closest friends. When Dean said this, Lia had nodded vigorously at Sam to show that she strongly agreed with Dean's statement.
"Pretty soon after... that, um... I put together some signs... Omens," Sam explained.
"Saying what exactly?" Lia asked.
Lia was very thankful that Sam had stopped going so in-depth about his... scene with Ruby. Although Lia wondered what kind of Omens that Sam had been looking for and for who. Omens were used to find demons, whenever there was a demon in town there would be things that would point to it. For example, cattle mutilations, (though she had no clue what these demons did to these cows, and she was fairly certain that she didn't want to know) lightning storms, and so on.
"Lilith was in town, and I wanted to strike her first," Sam told her.
Then Sam told them about the argument he got in with Ruby, Sam wanted to kill Lilith but Ruby insisted that Sam wasn't ready to take her on yet. Ruby tried to convince him not to go after Lilith, saying that he was the only one who could take her out, he was their only hope. Then Ruby stopped for a second, then realized the look that Sam was giving her. She explained what she figured he was thinking, that he didn't want to survive, that he wanted to die fighting , she said that if he killed her then he would have to go on living without Dean, then she told him that it wouldn't be what Dean would want.
All of a sudden Ruby started to block his path, so that he wouldn't get out, but Sam wouldn't allow her to get in his way. So he pulled her aside and threatened her by putting the knife to her throat, when he knew that she wouldn't stop him, he let her go and walked out of the door to kill Lilith.
After a month of looking for Lilith, he finally found her. Sam had been walking down the sidewalk then he noticed a little girl with cakes and sweets all around her on the table through a house's window. So Sam sneaked in very carefully through the front door of the house, he held Ruby's knife in a position, ready to attack in a heart-beat.
Sam could see the back of the little girl, she was wearing a light blue dress and was clearly a child. Then all of a sudden the girl looked back at Sam with tears in her eyes and begged him to let her go home. Obviously, Sam knew in a second that this was all a trap.
Sure enough, a demon attacked Sam from behind, taking his armed hand and bringing it back, Sam groaned with pain and dropped the knife, then the demon swiftly pinned Sam to a wall and began to choke him. The little girl watched them helplessly.
Then all of a sudden, Ruby appeared and stabbed the demon closest to her, the demon that had hold on Sam dropped him with surprise. As Ruby was fighting the demon, she ordered Sam to take the girl and run. Sam was in no position to argue, so he picked up the little girl in the blue dress, and he ran out of the house with her in his arms.
When Sam reached outside he put the girl down and told her to run, then he went back into the house quickly to see if Ruby was okay. He saw the demon was choking her against the wall, and a bit of blood was coming from her mouth. So Sam used his physic powers to expel the demon from its body, and for the first time, it worked.
"Ruby came back for me. Whatever you have to say, she saved me. More than that, she got through to me. What she said to me... It's what you would've said. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't be here," Sam explained.
There was a knock at the door, "Housekeeping."
Lia let out a deep breath and Dean looked down. Right at that moment was the worst moment for housekeeping to come and knock on their door. It was obvious that Dean was about to say something. Then again, Lia wondered why the maid had come so late during the night.
"Sir, I've got clean towels," The maid told them through the door.
Dean got up angrily and opened the door, "Couldn't you just leave 'em at the door?"
All of the sudden the maid walked in, she was a bit round and had darker skin, plus she was wearing the clothing that a maid usually wears. Although the fact that she just barged into the room was unexpected. She pushed the towels into Dean's hands and closed the curtains, then she went straight to Sam.
"I'm at this address," The maid told him hurriedly.
Sam blinked in confusion, "I'm sorry. What?"
The maid had handed Sam a slip of paper with the writing on it of an address, Sam and everyone else except for the maid, looked absolutely dumb-founded. Why was this random maid telling them about some address that she was going to be at? It didn't make a lick of sense.
"Go now. Go through the bathroom window, don't stop, don't take your car, don't pass go. There are demons in the hallway and in the parking lot," The maid explained.
"Ruby?" Sam asked.
Lia widened her eyes with surprise, she almost wanted to peek through the window curtains to see if there actually were demons in the parking lot who would be waiting for them. She then looked at Dean and raised an eyebrow at him, he looked just as shocked as she felt.
"Okay, yes, so I'm possessing this maid for a hot minute. Sue me. Don't worry, coma girl is slowly rotting on the floor back at the cabin with Anna, so I've got to hurry back. See you when you get there. Go!" Ruby exclaimed.
Then Ruby rushed out of their room quickly. When she had gone Lia and Dean looked at Sam with a shocked expression on their faces.
Once they had got their stuff, they did as Ruby told them, soon they were at the cabin and Ruby opened the door for them quickly, before Lia even had to knock. Which was a little surprising, but Lia was glad that at least they weren't caught by the demons surrounding their room.
"Glad you could make it," Ruby greeted.
"Yeah thanks," Sam said, then he looked at Anna. "Are you okay?"
Lia looked at Dean, then she walked into the cabin, Dean followed after he stared a little at Ruby, clearly thinking about the talk Sam had with them, and wondering if he could actually trust Ruby. Though Lia had her mind set on Ruby, and that was that she wouldn't trust Ruby for a second.
"Yeah. I think so. Ruby's not like other demons. She saved my life," Anna explained.
Dean nodded, "Yeah, I hear she does that. I guess I... You know."
Dean then looked at Ruby, and Ruby crossed her arms and looked at Dean a bit confused. Lia couldn't believe that Dean was actually going to apologize and thank Ruby, then again, Ruby did save Sam's life, so she could give her a bit of credit for that one.
"What?" Ruby asked.
Dean looked very uncomfortable, "I guess I owe you for... Sam, and I just wanted... you know..."
Lia gave a slight smile and tried not to laugh, it was funny watching him try to apologize to a demon, it clearly looked like hard work for him. Although Ruby clearly looked unmoved by Dean's 'speech'. Which Lia couldn't blame her for obviously, it wasn't really like Dean was good at apologizing.
"Don't strain yourself," Ruby told him.
"Okay then. Is the moment over?" Dean asked, then Ruby nodded. "Good, 'cause that was awkward."
Lia giggled softly at Dean's awkwardness, he made her laugh so much, when he was trying and even when he wasn't trying, but Lia loved it, because through all the tragedies, at least she had something to keep her happy and still smiling. Hunting wasn't exactly a walk in the park.
Anna then spoke up, "Hey, Sam, you think it'd be safe to make a quick call, just to tell my parents I'm okay? They must be completely freaked."
Dean, Sam, and Lia instantly looked at each other, and Lia frowned, her happiness quickly flowed away as she remembered seeing Anna's parents on the floor, dead. Then she sat down in front of Anna and looked into her eyes, trying to think of the words to explain what happened.
Lia took a deep breath, "Anna... when we were looking for you we first stopped by your house, demons had been there and... I'm sorry... your parents didn't make it."
It was amazing to watch how quickly Anna, who looked so sweet and innocent, could have her eyes wide one second, then tears gather in them quickly the next, then finally Anna had her head in her hands as she cried heavily at the sudden tragic news.
"Why is this happening to me!?" Anna demanded.
Lia looked down, she was about to say something but then Anna sat up straight suddenly, she had her eyes wide with fear, and her breathing was loud and fast. Lia had no idea what was going on or why Anna was behaving like this all of a sudden, it wasn't right.
"They're coming," Anna whispered.
Lia instantly stood up and she took Anna and looked around, then she saw an empty room and rushed Anna over to it, then she put Anna in the room and told her to stay put. Then Lia closed the door and when she came back Ruby looked pissed, Lia had a feeling that Dean told her about them losing the knife to Alastair.
All of a sudden the door started rattling violently and it burst open. Sam held his gun close to him, ready to start shooting the moment that whatever was coming for them entered the cabin. The wind blew in their faces and when Lia looked at the door she definitely didn't expect Castiel and Uriel to walk through.
"Please tell me you're here to help. We've been having demon issues all day," Dean told them angrily.
Uriel was looking at Ruby, "Well, I can see that. You want to explain why you have that stain in the room?"
Lia looked over at Ruby, for an instant her eyes went black from the sudden appearance of the angels, she then realized that this would have been her first encounter with the angels. Which Ruby was lucky for since they were all assholes, especially Uriel.
Castiel cut across Uriel, "We're here for Anna."
"Here for her like... here for her?" Dean asked.
With sudden realization, Lia realized that Dean was talking about emotionally, like consoling Anna for her losses. Lia couldn't help but scoff at this, obviously the angels weren't here to help Anna through her emotional problems, and Lia didn't even think they could give a person a pat on the back.
"Stop talking. Give her to us," Uriel ordered.
"Are you gonna help her or are you gonna hurt her?" Lia asked.
Lia glared at Uriel, she couldn't stand this angel. He always managed to piss her off, especially when he ordered them around and act like he was so more superior then them, like they were his playthings and he could get them to do whatever he wanted.
"Neither," Castiel told her truthfully. "She has to die."
